Blessed or cursed:

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2004 | by David Leon Moore

If there is a guardian angel for Boston Red Sox fans (and there's some debate about that), the workload is drastically lighter today.

The Red Sox, New England's beloved baseball heartbreakers, have won their first World Series title since 1918, and it's understandable if their stunned followers, accustomed to failure and despair, aren't sure what to do next.

After the hangover, that is.

With so many prayers answered and so many dreams realized, about the only thing Red Sox fans are worried about today is not having anything to worry about.

It could take a while, although maybe not 86 years, to get used to that.

"What will Red Sox fans complain about now?" Dan Shaughnessy, a Boston Globe columnist and author of The Curse of the Bambino , says....